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Kurnool: Violence rocks faction-hit villages

He added that Police bandobast have been made at all sensitive centres during nominations.

Kurnool: Amid reports that political parties of all hues had dumped money and liquor in all the villages that go to polls today, factional villages in Kurnool have come under the grip of tension and violence.

There are about 177 candidates in the fray for 14 Assembly constituencies, while 36 will fight out for Nandyal and Kurnool LS constituencies.

Despite the police making elaborate arrangements to ensure a free and fair poll, contestants care little for the police and carry on their activities of enticing votes with money and liquor.

It is a travesty of facts that police personnel kept at main check posts could not curb illegal transport of money. Voters fear reprisals from rivals at Banaganapalle, Alur, Allagadda and Pathikonda.

The followers of TD and YSRC candidates are distributing Rs 3,000 per vote at Banaganapalle, Rs 1,000 at Kurnool and Rs 1500 at Nandyal.

Kurnool SP Dr Kaginelli Fakkeerappa said that they have already started work to maintain law and order in sensitive and faction-hit villages ever since the process for the nominations started in the district.

He added that Police bandobast have been made at all sensitive centres during nominations.

The SP said that the Police Department was maintaining all records connected with the division of villages into sensitive and hyper-sensitive ones, including trouble makers in the faction-hit villages of Kurnool district.

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